COVID-19: Tamil Nadu government promotes class 1 to 9 without exams

Concerned regarding the safety and health of the students, the Tamil Nadu government decided to cancel the annual examinations for classes 1 to 9.

Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus, the government of Tamil Nadu announced that under the strict lockdown all-round the country, it is not feasible to conduct annual examinations for the students of Class 1 to 9. The World Health Organisation already declared the COVID-19 a pandemic. The need to control the virus spread is increasing with every passing day. In order to control the contiguous coronavirus spread, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a strict nationwide lockdown for the next 21 days. People are advised to stay inside their homes and follow social-distancing. Concerned regarding the safety and health of the students, the Tamil Nadu government decided to cancel the annual examinations for classes 1 to 9.

According to a reputed source, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Edappadi K.Palanisamy declared that students from class 1 to class 9 will be promoted to the higher standards without any examinations. The Tamil Nadu CM confirmed the promotion of the students stating that he has ordered the School Education Department to promote all students belonging to Class 1 to Class 9. The students of class 1 to 9 who were supposed to appear for the annual examination will be promoted to the next class without any annual examination or improvement examination.

The whole country is under a 21-day lockdown. World researchers are not able to find the cure of the pandemic yet and this why the world leaders decided to put the severely infected regions under a lockdown. So far, the total number of positive coronavirus cases are nearly 540. By now, the disease claimed several deaths and controlling its spread is the need of the time for all. People are advised to take all the preventive measures to stop the coronavirus spread.

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